Customizing Sign up page

You can customize the user Sign up page to suit your organization needs.

About this task

By default, the Sign up page includes the following fields:
  • User name
  • Email
  • Password
It is mandatory to provide a user name, email, and password to sign up to Developer Portal.
Note: Users who signed up before the Developer Portal 11.1 release have their email addresses as their usernames. Hence, for those users, the username that is the email address, is shown for their posts or comments in the APIs and Packages.

You can add new fields in the registration form to get more details from your users. You cannot edit or remove the existing default fields. However, you can move them up or down to change their order of appearance in the registration form.

In this example, you add the field, Address in the Sign up page for the theme, Theme1.

Procedure

  1. From the Themes page, click the customize icon Customize icon next to Theme1.
  2. Select Components from the left pane and select the Registration form.
  3. Click Add a field.
  4. Select Text from the Field Type list.
  5. Select Text from the Label section.
  6. Provide an Address in the Name field.
  7. Select Medium from the Size list.
  8. Select the Required checkbox to indicate that the field is mandatory for user registration.
  9. Click Add.
    The new field appears.
  10. Click Save.
    Your changes are saved.
  11. Click the activate icon Activate icon next to the theme in the Themes page to activate the changes.

What to do next

  • Add any of the following types of fields in the Sign up page. Select an option from the Field Type list:
    • Password. To add a field that allows users provide their password.
    • Select. To add a field with options in a drop-down list.
    • Checkbox. To add a field with options as check boxes.
    • Radio. To add a field with options as radio buttons.
  • Select the type of label to be displayed for the field from the Label section:
    • Text, if the value entered in the field must appear as they are.
    • i18N, if the value is in other languages. You can use English or any language that the i18N standard supports.
  • Select the Auto focus checkbox to display the cursor in the new field by default.
  • If you have selected Select, Checkbox, Radio in the Field type drop-down list, click Add new option and provide the possible options.
  • Select the edit icon Edit icon next to the field that you want to edit.

    You cannot edit the default fields.

  • Use the move up Move up icon and the move down Move down icon icons next to a field to modify its position.
  • Click the delete icon Delete icon next to a field to removed it.

    You cannot remove the default fields.

  • Select or clear the check box next to a field name to include or remove it from the sign up page.